chch.live a street, in depth

Lewis Street

15 reports at 7 addresses in Hoon Hay, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 13 separate days somebody filed something about it.

15 reports7 addresses13 days reported onfrom the air, then29 documents carry the name4 businessesthe 2899th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

2C Lewis Street, 5 reports3 Lewis Street, 3 reports2B Lewis Street, 3 reports6 Lewis Street, 1 report2A Lewis Street, 1 report1-3 Lewis Street, 1 report1 Lewis Street, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Lewis Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Hoon Hay.

From the air, then

Lewis Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Lewis Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Lewis Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Lewis Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The addresses on it

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 29 on the shelf; the 4 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The businesses on it, 4

Premises whose address in the directory is Lewis Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Hoon Hay Childrens Library ramp · 66 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Lewis Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPothole, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoWater Supply, a report photoWater Supply, a report photo more photographs
on the Hoon Hay wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Lewis Street?

In Hoon Hay, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Lewis Street?

15 reports at 7 addresses, most often water & drains (5), roads & footpaths (5), rubbish & dumping (2).

When was Lewis Street first reported on?

2019, the record covers 13 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

Every street the archive knows → · Hoon Hay → · This street as a feed →